Evil and the God of Love

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Problem and its Terms....Pages 3-14
The Two Poles of Thought — Monism and Dualism....Pages 15-33
Front Matter....Pages 35-35
The Fountainhead: St. Augustine — Evil as Privation of Good Stemming from Misused Freedom....Pages 37-69
The Fountainhead: St. Augustine — The Principle of Plenitude and the Aesthetic Theme....Pages 70-89
Catholic Thought from Augustine to the Present Day....Pages 90-114
The Problem of Evil in Reformed Thought....Pages 115-144
Eighteenth-Century ‘Optimism’....Pages 145-168
Dividing the Light from the Darkness....Pages 169-198
Front Matter....Pages 199-199
Sin and the Fall According to the Hellenistic Fathers....Pages 201-218
The Irenaean Type of Theodicy in Schleiermacher....Pages 219-235
The Two Theodicies — Contrasts and Agreements....Pages 236-240
Front Matter....Pages 241-241
The Starting-Point....Pages 243-261
Moral Evil....Pages 262-291
Pain....Pages 292-317
Suffering....Pages 318-336
The Kingdom of God and the Will of God....Pages 337-364
Recent Work on the Problem of Evil....Pages 365-386
Back Matter....Pages 387-389